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There was a bottle of champagne in the Sparkly/Stinky refrigerator back then. The empty is now on a bookcase in my office, along with some other items that are there to remind me of bad times, not good.
But when we put that bottle in the fridge, it was with a great deal of hope after a long, hard fought, down in the mud campaign against a cadre of people who have no morals and for whom winning is everything.
The Obama 2012 campaign is much better run than was the Kerry 2004 campaign. Diametrically opposite. But at the fringes are some of the same players. Karl Rove and Stephani Cutter come quickly to mind. The states of Florida and Ohio were big then. And hard to predict. And they are now.
On balance, I feel lots better now, but still . . . . .
As much as ever - maybe more so - every vote in those battleground states will matter. Every vote.
I do NOT want another empty champagne bottle on my bookcase.
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